Thirteen Sachem HS Students Work with Scientists to Build Robotic Muon Telescope
 
Ten robotics students and three science research students from Sachem’s North and East High Schools formed an alliance with scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University to build a two-meter robotic muon telescope. 
 
Robotics team members will design, engineer, and build the telescope superstructure and its internet enabled control system, while scientists and research students will develop the scientific instrumentation inside the device. 
 
Besides seeing muons arriving from high in the atmosphere, the finished telescope will search for rare muons emerging from the ground.  “These result from high-energy neutrinos colliding with the Earth,” said Helio Takai, PhD, of Brookhaven National Laboratory.  “If a high school student identifies some of these, it will make for a very noteworthy Intel prize.” The planned completion of the telescope will be Summer 2009. 

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